Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Vienna 🙂
Paphos
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Paphos 🙂
Iceland
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Iceland 🙂
Stockholm
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Stockholm 🙂
Why Diversity in Product Matters
Özlem is a passionate, highly skilled and knowledgeable product consultant who leverages modern management principles, practices and methods. By influencing the way people think and act in the complex environment of product development, she enables organisations to innovate faster. Less than 30% of staff at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Twitter are women. […]
My identity is a superpower not an obstacle
America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) talks about how presence creates possibility and how powerful representation of culture in the world, particularly in media is.
How language shapes the way we think
Something I try to be aware of and have talked to my team about (likely to their dismay) is the importance of precision of language and the impact the words you can use can have. Consider the difference in how you might feel reading “you’re bad at this” vs. “an area to develop may be […]
5 exercises to help you build more empathy
Empathy — or understanding the thoughts and feelings of the people around us — is one of the most important and most trying parts of being social creatures. But what exactly is empathy? And crucially, can we have more? Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki PhD, director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory there, studies these very questions. In […]
3 secrets of resilient people
Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares three hard-won strategies for developing the capacity to brave adversity, overcome struggle and face whatever may come head-on with fortitude and grace. These three techniques are something I try too practice (not always successfully in the moment) and find incredibly valuable.
The Myth of Average
This talk starts with a fantastic real-world example of the cost of using ‘the average’ in the US military and the huge benefit of instead designing “to the edges” which is in the first 5 minutes. The rest of the talk is more centred around the educational system so may be of less interest to […]